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Finnish conductor (born 1967)

Hannu Petteri Lintu (born 13 October 1967) is a Finnish conductor.

Early life and education

Hannu Lintu was born in Rauma, the son of Johannes Lintu, an electrical engineer, and his wife Lilja Lintu (née Toivonen), a photographer.

He studied piano and cello at the Turku Conservatory and at the Sibelius Academy. He also studied conducting with Atso Almila, and later with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He took part in conducting master classes with Ilya Musin.

Lintu won the Nordic Conducting Competition in 1994 in Bergen. He graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 1996 with honours.

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Lintu took up a part-time appointment of professor of conducting at the Sibelius Academy in September 2014.^[1]

Career

From 1998 to 2001, Lintu was chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2005, he served as the artistic director for the Summer Sounds Festival of the Finnish contemporary music ensemble Avanti!. Lintu was chief cond